# Ghosts of Beirut (2023)

> A four-episode miniseries following the decades-long manhunt for Lebanese militant Imad Mughniyeh, told from American, Israeli and Lebanese viewpoints.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/142935

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 4
- Episode runtime: 58 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, thriller
- Created by: Lior Raz, Avi Issacharoff, Greg Barker
- Network: Showtime
- Cast: Dina Shihabi, Dermot Mulroney, Amir Khoury, Ned Bellamy, Rafi Gavron, Soufiane El Khalidy, Garret Dillahunt, Farida Bouazzaoui
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21100682/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: graphic
- Tone: tense, paranoid, austere, sober

## Synopsis

Ghosts of Beirut (2023) is a four-episode American limited series created by Lior Raz, Avi Issacharoff and Greg Barker for Showtime. Its story follows the decades-long hunt for Lebanese militant Imad Mughniyeh, a figure who outwitted the CIA and Mossad for over two decades. Dina Shihabi plays Lena Asayran, a central figure in the pursuit, alongside Dermot Mulroney as Robert Ames and Ned Bellamy as William Casey, with Amir Khoury playing Mughniyeh himself. The engine of the series is the slow, patient work of tracking a man who keeps vanishing, with each hour built from intercut operations, intelligence meetings, and clandestine moves across continents. Rather than a single protagonist's point of view, the narrative rotates among American, Israeli and Lebanese perspectives, so the same events are seen through rival loyalties. Set against the Lebanese civil war aftermath and Cold War-era intelligence rivalries, the tone is tense, austere and paranoid, with a sober, grounded realism. Viewers who enjoy Tehran, Zero Dark Thirty and Fauda will find resonance in its procedural tension and geopolitical scope.

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